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- From: djbpitt+@pitt.edu (David J Birnbaum)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: programs and program objects
- Message-ID: <9226@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP>
- Date: 6 Nov 92 17:09:35 GMT
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- Organization: University of Pittsburgh
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- According to The Unofficial Guide to the Workplace Shell (an excellent
- introduction by Jeff Cohen): "A program object is not the program
- itself, but a reference to it." He goes on to add: "Shredding a program
- object will not delete the program. You can also have as many program
- objects for a single program as you like ..."
-
- I just installed TE/2 and it created, among other things, a program
- object called "te2.exe". Selecting this object launches the program.
- Question:
-
- How do I delete the exe file named "te2.exe" from the WPS? If shredding
- the program object doesn't delete the program, and there is no data
- object that represents the actual file, how does the user get to the
- latter?It isn't that I want to delete TE/2 (I don't), but I'd like to
- understand the relationship between objects and physical files better.
- I had thought that every physical file, including exe programs, would
- have a corresponding data object that the user could manipulate for
- file system housecleaning. In addition, I though that an exe file could
- be pointed to by any number of program objects. My TE/2 directory seems
- to have one program object, but no accessible data object corresponding
- to the physical te2.exe file that I find on my disk.
-
- Thanks for any clarification.
-
- --David
-
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